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Helen Morrissey

Helen Morrissey

Editor, Professional Pensions

Helen is editor of Professional Pensions and has twelve years' experience of writing about pensions and retirement from both a retail and institutional standpoint.

She initially joined Professional Pensions in December 2003 as a features writer and was made editor in October 2014.

In addition to her work on Professional Pensions Helen also edited Retirement Planner, a magazine aimed at independent financial advisers for eight years.

While she has written on a range of retirement related topics over the years she specialises in at and post-retirement issues. She has appeared on the BBC's Your Money programme on several occasions and appears regularly on Share Radio.

Helen holds the Pensions Management Institute's Retirement Provision Certificate (RPC).

In her spare time Helen is a keen runner with a number of half and full marathons under her belt. She is currently training for her first - and she believes her last - ultramarathon.

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Articles by Helen Morrissey

Defined Contribution

Who has master trust accreditation?

Many master trusts say they have achieved the Master Trust Assurance Framework accreditation yet very few appear on the regulator's official list. Helen Morrissey asks why this is happening

clock 13 June 2016 • 9 min read

Defined Contribution

We must build on auto-enrolment success

Auto-enrolment has been a success so far but we need to keep moving forward says Tim Sharp.

clock 09 June 2016 • 3 min read

Industry

Does Professional Pensions get your vote?

Professional Pensions has made the shortlist in two categories at the upcoming Willis Towers Watson Awards.

clock 09 June 2016 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

DB Taskforce opens call for evidence on industry challenges

The PLSA's Defined Benefit (DB) Taskforce has opened its call for evidence on challenges facing DB.

clock 09 June 2016 • 2 min read

Defined Contribution

DCIF warns against two-tier pension system

Without widespread engagement a two tier system could emerge based on employer commitment to delivering good member outcomes warns an industry panel.

clock 09 June 2016 • 2 min read

Defined Benefit

Updated: BHS failed due to 'battering' from TPR and Green

British Home Stores (BHS) collapsed due to the treatment it received from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) and Philip Green according to Dominic Chappell.

clock 08 June 2016 • 2 min read

Defined Benefit

Updated: BHS: TPR and PPF approach to DB schemes not fit for 'current commercial world'

The way the Pensions Protection Fund (PPF) and The Pensions Regulator (TPR) deal with defined benefit (DB) schemes under stress does not help pensioners MPs have heard.

clock 08 June 2016 • 3 min read

Defined Benefit

BHS collapse reveals 'problem in the system'

The fall of British Home Stores (BHS) into administration shows the tension between managing pension schemes and businesses according to a City high flier.

clock 07 June 2016 • 1 min read

Investment

How to manage your pension scheme like a grandmaster

DB pensions can learn a lot from chess finds Robert Gardner.

clock 07 June 2016 • 3 min read

Investment

Is current low interest rate environment the new normal?

Helen Morrissey asks whether the current low interest rate environment is here to stay.

clock 07 June 2016 • 1 min read
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